# Critical Play

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- Book: [Critical Play](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-flanagan/critical-play) ([Critical Play.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-flanagan/critical-play.md))
- Authors: [Mary Flanagan](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-flanagan)
- Publisher: The MIT Press
- ISBN: 978-02-6251-865-9
- Pages: 362
- Published: 2013-02-08
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

An examination of subversive games like The Sims—games designed for political, aesthetic, and social critique. For many players, games are entertainment, diversion, relaxation, fantasy. But what...